# mattes/rotating-proxy

Rotating TOR proxy with Docker

Repository: https://github.com/mattes/rotating-proxy
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rotating-proxy
Language: Ruby
License: Unlicense
License Family: permissive
Topics: tor, polipo, proxy, haproxy, docker, rotating-proxy, socks-proxy, http-proxy
Last push: 2024-04-25T07:50:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4527, "days_push": 860, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1219, forks 253 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:01.736961+00:00)

## What it is
A Docker image that runs multiple Tor instances behind HAproxy and Polipo, exposing a single HTTP proxy endpoint that rotates through many Tor exit IPs. It provides load balancing across Tor circuits with a stats dashboard.

## Use cases
- rotate IP addresses for web scraping through a single proxy endpoint
- run many Tor circuits behind one HTTP proxy
- load-balance requests across multiple Tor instances
- anonymize outbound HTTP requests from an application
- get a rotating SOCKS/HTTP proxy in Docker

## When to choose
- you need many rotating Tor exit IPs behind one endpoint
- you want a ready-made Docker setup with HAproxy load balancing
- you need HTTP proxy access to Tor (which only offers SOCKS natively)

## When to avoid
- you need a non-Tor rotating residential proxy service
- you need high throughput or low latency
- you cannot run Docker or don't want Tor traffic

## Facets
- artifact type: infra-config
- maturity: maintenance
- function: proxy, networking, privacy, caching
- domain: privacy, networking, security, self-hosted, censorship-circumvention
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: tor, haproxy, polipo, socks-proxy, http-proxy, load-balancing, ip-rotation, docker, linux

## Member repositories
- mattes/rotating-proxy (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.736961+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:16:14.108157+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mattes/rotating-proxy (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:01.736961+00:00, sha 71b9403fe263)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.